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The idea of freedom is what drove the development of Linux kernel. Formerly, many people tend to see Windows, or Mac, as their option for their system. But then Linus Torvalds came and introduced Linux. This made things pretty interesting. Imagine a...
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For reasons I don't understand, I am practically awash in male jade clubtails...and not a lovely lady in sight. One would think that if there are guys, there will be girls, but I seem to have stumbled upon the odonate equivalent of a Linux Users Group convention. I interrupted this guy's breakfast, and I was somewhat surprised to see that he wasn't having Cheetos and Mountain Dew as he recompiled the kernel. :)
My first distro, it's a 3CD boxed version. I bought it back in 2001 and thus started my journey with GNU/Linux. It was an important turning point of my IT career. I knew that there were open source and free *NIX operating systems besides Micro$oft Windows. It has been almost 8 years!
2001年暑假无意中看到这个盒装产品，Mandrake Linux 8.1。开始了我漫长的GNU/Linux旅程，这算是我IT学习生涯中一个重要的转折点。知道除了Microsoft Windows之外，还有开放源代码，免费的操作系统。快要8年了...
My First Computer, or rather, first computer that was fully mine. I remember upgrading from a 486SX25 to a 486DX266 and spending ~$400 to bump the 4MB of ram to a whopping 12MB. It had a 164MB harddrive and 256k of video ram. I never did lay down the cache to upgrade the video SRAM to the full 512k. It primarily acted as a light weight webserver.